21 has seemed to be the magic number for us adults in the O house.  It is apparently just as I thought, you turn 21 and you start feeling old.  And now, apparently my body thinks it’s time to get old too, and so does my husband’s. We’re both finding more and more gray hairs by the day!  Crazy.  And so, I was trying to figure out why now. Why at 21?

1. We’re stressed.

2. We became husband and wife and parents in the same year, at 19 years old.

3. We’re trying to balance the hectic life of finishing school and parenting a nearly 2 year old.

4. We’re just getting older. (I know older people are smirking right now, but I don’t feel 21!)

Of course there are plenty of people who start going gray even before they finish high school, with no kids around. I just thought it wouldn’t happen to me since both of my parents have hardly gone gray yet, I thought I’d luck out and have naturally brown hair for at least 20 more years. And really, I guess I could, but it just boggles my mind that the process has started already!

When did you start noticing those wisdom hairs?

(Now off to study for my three tests this week to gain even more wisdom hairs)